Beginning by posing the question of what it is that marks the
difference between something like terrorism and something like
civil society, Brassington argues that commonsense moral arguments
against terrorism or political violence tend to imply that the
modern democratic polis might also be morally unjustifiable. At the
same time, the commonsense arguments in favour of something like a
modern democratic polis could be co-opted by the politically
violent as exculpatory. In exploring this prima facie problem and
in the course of trying to substantiate the commonsense
distinction, Brassington identifies a tension between the primary
values of truth and normativity in the standard accounts of moral
theory which he ultimately resolves by adopting lines of thought
suggested by Martin Heidegger and concluding that the problem with
mainstream moral philosophy is that, in a sense, it tries too hard.
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